No, it never ends. Until it's over. All over.No Moderates Allowed
Juan Williams: "The death of the political middle is the defining shift taking place in American politics today. It is ending the tradition of political leadership that rises above ideology, region, party, religion and even race to attain statesmanship ... The Congress has become an increasingly uncomfortable place for voices of moderation. Many of them are fed up and have decided that 2012 is the year they will call it quits ... Because of the exodus -- if not expulsion -- of the remaining moderates from Congress this year, American politics will become even more polarized and dysfunctional. If you like the ideological extremism and obstructionist paralysis that has characterized the 112th Congress, then you will love the 113th."
And sure, much of the leadership that rises above (to statesmanship, yet) is fondly mis-remembered crap that never happened, but what of history isn't?(Modi!)
50+ years of insane wars and military spending.
ReplyDeleteWell over thirty years of the best government money can buy.
Somewhere around thirty years of a literal class war: Against the middle class.
Over twenty years of batshit Republican rhetoric.
Fifteen years of milquetoast Democrats.
Moderates? Moderates?
We're toast.
Moderation Editor:
ReplyDeleteWell summed. Depressingly well.
Not really moderates, just a few people who knew how to keep their vile opinions to themselves most of the time.